Using the Internet to raise pigs has become mainstream
In Binzhou City, Shandong Province, four pig farmers were eating and chatting together in a restaurant. This was not an ordinary gathering, but a party of pig farmers. They were all raising pigs in a new way. The most eye-catching among them is Liu Zhiqiang, the director of Binzhou Rongchang Pig Farm. The ringtone of the cell phone urged Liu Zhiqiang to return to the pig farm quickly. He had to bathe the sows who were about to give birth, a critical moment.
Director Liu Zhiqiang said: "Usually, he will give us a reminder 10 days in advance. Go to the site to find all the pigs. Then rush to the bathing area to give it a bath, and then let it wait for delivery to prevent pathogenic microorganisms from gestation. The pigs are taken directly to the farrowing room.”
Liu Zhiqiang uses a mobile phone software called "Zhinongtong", which has changed Liu Zhiqiang's pig-raising model. In the past, pig farms relied on personal experience. Now Liu Zhiqiang can use the data and analysis formed in the Pig Network to easily know when he needs to do what kind of work for each sow. This has improved Liu Zhiqiang's work efficiency. At the same time, the production efficiency of pig farms has also been greatly improved.
Based on Liu Zhiqiang’s pig-raising data, the Pig Network will provide him with production arrangement suggestions to help him reduce production costs and improve breeding efficiency. As long as you have a computer or mobile phone. Liu Zhiqiang can easily grasp the pig farm information.
At the other end of the pig network, the information platform issues an ID card and electronic file to each pig. From sows, breeding, pregnancy, farrowing, to piglets growing into fat pigs for sale, the life of a pig becomes well-documented. These big data will bring new market guidance and decision-making basis for future pig breeding.
Liu Zhiqiang now looks at the pig price every day to make predictions about production adjustments in the future. Using the pig flow map generated by huge pig data, you can see the national pig flow direction and stocking forecast, helping farmers to reasonably control the scale of breeding.
A few days before the pigs are put on the market, Liu Zhiqiang uses the data analysis of the Pig Network to match suitable buyers. Pig Internet provides a trading platform for buyers and sellers, and both parties can complete the transaction without meeting. From raising pigs to selling pigs, everything can be done on the Pig Internet.
The above content is the pig raising method of a modern pig farm shown in the fifth episode of the large-scale documentary "The Foundation of a Great Country" broadcast by CCTV-9 on March 3. The large-scale documentary "The Foundation of a Great Power" is one of the projects of the 2015 "Recording China" communication project of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is China's first documentary that reflects the process of China's agricultural modernization in a panoramic manner.
The CCTV team visited pig farms in Shandong and other places and spent many days interviewing and filming, truly recording how modern pig farms use the pig networking platform to improve production efficiency and reduce production costs. With the convenience brought by the Internet and big data, they can truly The wisdom of raising pigs.
"The core business of Pig Internet consists of three parts: the first is pig management, the second is pig trading, and the third is pig finance. The core purpose of pig management is to use the Internet, Internet of Things and other technologies to form pig farming big data, combined with modern The pig production management concept helps farmers improve pig production efficiency,” the person in charge of Rural Credit Internet, a pig Internet operating company, gave a detailed introduction.
The lack of data is the biggest problem plaguing the modern pig industry
The total market value of the pig industry is as high as 1.5 trillion. For most Chinese people, pork is their main source of meat. China's pig industry presents a production pattern of small-scale and large groups, which "rises up in a rush" and "disperses in a rush". This ups and downs cycle intensifies the fluctuations in pig production and market. This is the pig cycle.
The sharp rise and fall in pork prices has also affected the stable development of the pig industry. As the price of pork soars, the price of corn feed will also rise, even affecting the stability of China's overall grain prices. However, due to long-term information asymmetry, low management and production efficiency, and lack of basic data, most pig-raising enterprises are still helpless in the face of the above difficulties.
In the final analysis, the core factor affecting the rapid development of the pig industry is the lack of data, which makes the overall efficiency of the pig industry in management, transactions and finance low.
One is the lack of management data. At this stage, most of the country relies on artificial breeding and the level of industrialization is low, resulting in a weak data foundation. In the process of pig farm breeding and management, the importance of data is not recognized, and production is more based on experience, resulting in my country's PSY (The number of weaned piglets each sow can provide each year) level is relatively low, and the gap with foreign countries is large. If PSY is low, then the natural reaction to the consumer side is higher costs and poor risk resistance. The lack of data on individual pig farms has further aggravated the blindness of the industry, making it impossible to effectively adjust the pig farm inventory structure, resulting in unbalanced pig production numbers.
The second is the lack of transaction data. At present, the scale of breeding is scattered, pig farms are widely distributed, and slaughter information is asymmetric, resulting in the existence of a large number of middlemen, many intermediate links, and high transaction costs. After the transaction is completed, no data will be retained. For price discovery, Previous price analysis and pig cycle research cannot provide effective data support.
The third is the lack of financial data. Finance is based on data. Due to the lack of data accumulation in transactions and management, finance is impossible to talk about. This is why when consumer finance and other supply chain finance are becoming successful, the pig industry has been unable to obtain it. Important reasons for financial support.
Big data pig farming makes pig farming easier and more targeted
Pig Internet improves management efficiency. At this stage, more and more pig farms are beginning to embrace the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things can effectively reduce the tediousness and error rate of data entry during the production process and ensure the accuracy of the data. At this stage, with the development of AI (artificial intelligence) technology With further development, there will be new solutions for pig number identification and pig individual identification, and the accumulation of data will be improved.
Data accumulation is only the basis of management, and more lies in the data intelligence after data aggregation. In terms of management, for a single pig farm, data analysis can quickly perform benchmarking and analysis, similar to a physical examination of the pig farm, to find out the problems in the pig farm, the differences and reasons from pig farms of the same size, Make suggestions for quick improvements.
Through the data analysis of swine diseases, we can provide effective reminders of the epidemic and carry out prevention and control. It is true that prevention is better than cure and the use of veterinary drugs is reduced. While reducing breeding costs, it can also improve the quality of pork. Analyze different types of feeds and under what conditions they should be fed to achieve the lowest feed-to-meat ratio, which can provide farmers with the lowest feed-to-meat ratio. Provide recommendations for the optimal feeding plan; through full data coverage of the production process, the traceability of pigs in the breeding process can be truly formed, and combined with blockchain technology, the entire production process can be traced.
Pig Internet makes transactions easier. Through the data formed during the transaction process, the transaction price can be analyzed and pig price predictions can be made for a period of time in the future to help pig farms adjust their stocking structure and prevent risks. The real transaction price is also the basis for the formation of pig pricing power, which promotes the standardization and standardization of pig transactions and makes the price formation more market-oriented. On the basis of the real trading price of live pigs, the live pig trading price index can be derived, which is also the premise of live pig futures.
Various data accumulated by the Pig Internet provide effective support for finance. The data formed by management and transactions are an important basis for finance. According to a certain risk control model, pig farms with low comprehensive costs and good profits can be selected, allowing them to fully enjoy the convenience brought by finance, including pig loans needed to expand scale and pig farms needed to hedge risks. Pig insurance etc. Let data bring practical help to pig farmers, and at the same time, finance can also help industrial development.
The Internet's transformation of the pig industry is not the only manifestation of the transformation and upgrading of the most traditional agriculture. Like many countries in the world, China's agriculture is moving from tradition to modernity. Through varying degrees of processing of agricultural products, agricultural products have transformed from pastoral to rural areas. Adding more value to the table is a new topic in China's agricultural modernization. Based on this, more and more agricultural companies and Internet companies are joining this process to rapidly promote industrial upgrading.
The original intention of the Pig Internet is essentially to connect more pig-related resources and use the most advanced Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other leading technologies to form a pig network and give full play to network synergy. advantages, build an ecosystem for the pig industry, and improve industrial efficiency.
What you raise is pigs, what you compare is data
Pig farms that continue to use pig networking can effectively know the status of each sow. Through data analysis, we can know the current status of the pigs and what they need to do in the next few days. With the help of PC and mobile reminders, pig farm workers can prepare for relevant work in advance, greatly improving the sophistication of management. By improving the granularity of sow management and reducing the number of non-production days, the PSY of the pig farm can be further improved. It can also be connected to feeding equipment to record the feeding status and weight gain data of pigs, analyze more suitable feed packages for pig farms, and reduce feed waste.
By cleaning and processing the pig farm data in the Pig Internet, a sample of the pig farm inventory structure across the country can be obtained. Based on this, forecasting of slaughter can effectively guide how production should be adjusted in the next few months, such as The map navigation software provides real-time traffic information, allowing each pig farm to make production decisions in advance.
With the help of the Internet of Things, data collection can be made more accurate and simpler. The application of the Internet of Things can greatly save manpower. You can control the production equipment of the pig farm through your mobile phone. The certified equipment can be directly linked to the Pig Internet and can be used after matching. If you need to purchase equipment, you can purchase it online at the Pig Internet. , which greatly reduces the entry threshold for the Internet of Things.
The Pig Internet processes all collected data through blockchain technology, making it impossible to tamper with, forming data on the entire process of pigs from birth to sale, truly recording the pig's life. By scanning the generated traceability QR code, you can Check out the growth of this pig.
Through the mining and analysis of pig big data, it will in turn provide data basis for the production and transactions of the pig industry, improve efficiency, reduce costs, stabilize the pig cycle, explore the price discovery function, and transform the pig industry from a very traditional industry to It has become a new industry based on data intelligence. This is what Rural Credit Union calls smart pig farming.
Conclusion
In less than 40 years, from liberalizing and revitalizing the agricultural product market to the popularity of agricultural product e-commerce, China has used new technological revolution and financial services to shape and promote the marketization process of agricultural products. This time, China and the world are on the same starting line. However, the Internet transformation of agriculture is not just e-commerce. Changes are also taking place in the production process. The accumulation of this series of changes will eventually have a huge impact on China's agricultural production pattern in the future. Rural Credit Internet's Pig Internet Platform is Make the pig industry different.
